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LADBROKES
MARKET MOVES
It has been a busy
morning in betting offices up and down the country ahead of the opening day
of the Ladbrokes St Leger meeting and there has been plenty of support for
Sword In Hand, ridden by Dale Gibson, in the Clipper Logistics Leger Legends
Classified Stakes (3.35pm).
 The Alan Jarvis-trained
four-year-old is now a 10/1 shot (from 12/1) with Ladbrokes who make
Callmeakhab and Winslow Arizona the 6/1 joint-favourites for the mile race.
Ladbrokes' spokesman,
David Williams, reports plenty of money for Secretinthepark in the Beauty At
Doncaster Handicap (4.45pm) and Ed McMahon's colt has been cut to 8/1 (from
9/1) for the seven-furlong event.
"Secretinthepark is
by far our biggest loser in the book so far on what has been a busy morning
in our offices," said Williams.
"Masamah has also
been supported in the Crown Hotel Bawtry Scarbrough Stakes (3.00pm) and it'll
be a shocking start to the meeting should those two horses oblige."
Masamah is now a 4/1
chance having been as big as 6/1 this morning while Medicean Man has also
been supported in the same race and is now 11/2 (from 7/1).
Ladbrokes Market Moves:
2.00: 7 (from 9) Emaad;
15/2 (from 9) Supersta; 10 (from 12) Master Carpenter
2.30: 2 (from 5/2)
Lightning Thunder
3.00: 4 (from 6)
Masamah; 11/2 (from 7) Medicean Man
3.35: 10 (from 12) Sword
In Hand
4.10: 3 (from 10/3)
Gatewood
4.45: 5 (from 7) Regal
Dan; 8 (from 9) Secretinthepark
5.15: 10 (from 12) Sir
Pedro; 12 (from 16) Even Stevens
UPDATED
NON-RUNNERS AND JOCKEY CHANGES
Joe
Fanning, who had four booked rides today at Doncaster, has been rerouted to
Carlisle to take up the rides of Franny Norton, who broke his leg in a fall
at Leicester yesterday.
JOCKEY CHANGES
FIRST RACE, 2.00pm: THE
ARENA GROUP NURSERY
No.
9 SUPERSTA
is now ridden by Harry Bentley
THIRD RACE, 3.00pm: THE
CROWN HOTEL BAWTRY SCARBROUGH STAKES
No.
7 TANGERINE
TREES is now ridden by Jim Crowley
SIXTH RACE, 4.45pm: THE
BEAUTY AT DONCASTER HANDICAP
No.
4 ONE MORE
WORD is now ridden by Graham Gibbons
SEVENTH RACE, 5.15pm:
THE BERENDSEN WORKWEAR HANDICAP
No.
4 CHEVETON
is now ridden by Steve Drowne
NON-RUNNERS
FIRST RACE, 2.00pm: THE
ARENA GROUP NURSERY
No. 5
DJINNI (IRE) (Self Cert
(Bad Scope))
No. 7
CAPTAIN BOB (IRE)
(Other)
No. 14 IT'S ALL A GAME (Going)
FOURTH RACE, 3.35pm: THE
CLIPPER LOGISTICS LEGER LEGENDS CLASSIFIED STAKES
No. 2
BROCTUNE PAPA GIO
(Self Cert (Not Eaten Up))
Reserve no. 17 Waltz
Darling is utilised & Willie Newton rides
FIFTH RACE, 4.10pm: THE
PARK HILL HOSPITAL CONDITIONS RACE
No. 5
BOONGA ROOGETA (Self
Cert (Heat in Leg))
SEVENTH RACE, 5.15pm:
THE BERENDSEN WORKWEAR HANDICAP
No. 9
ROYAL Bajan
(Going)
No.
21 BURNHOPE (Self Cert (Cast In Box))
THURSDAY'S
NON-RUNNER
THIRD RACE,
2.40pm: WEATHERBYS HAMILTON INSURANCE £300,000 2-Y-O RACE
No.11
DER BLAUE REITER (IRE)
(Horse Claimed)
FRIDAY'S
DECLARED RUNNERS AT DONCASTER
1.40pm
Polypipe Flying Childers Stakes (Group 2), 5f, (9)
1 (6)
Ambiance (IRE) (Visor) Mick Channon 9st 0lb Martin Harley
2 (4)
Extortionist (IRE) Olly Stevens 9st 0lb Mickael Barzalona
3 (3)
Green Door (IRE) (Blinkers) Olly Stevens 9st 0lb Jim Crowley
4 (5)
Sleeper King (IRE) Kevin Ryan 9st 0lb James Doyle
5 (7)
Thunder Strike Richard Hannon 9st 0lb Richard Hughes
6 (9)
Excel's Beauty (Blinkers) James Tate 8st 11lb Graham Lee
7 (8)
Fast (IRE) Richard Hannon 8st 11lb Ryan Moore
8 (1)
Reroute (IRE) Ed Walker 8st 11lb Robert Winston
9 (2)
Wind Fire (USA) David Brown 8st 11lb Jamie Spencer
2.10pm
Ladbrokes Mallard Handicap, 1m 6f 132yds, (8)
1 (1)
Camborne (Sheepskin C/P) John Gosden 10st 0lb Robert Havlin
2 (4)
Songcraft (IRE) (Sheepskin C/P) Saeed bin Suroor 9st 13lb Silvestre De Sousa
3 (5)
Tenenbaum Charlie Appleby 9st 13lb Mickael Barzalona
4 (6)
Tropical Beat David O'Meara 9st 5lb Daniel Tudhope
5 (2)
Semeen Luca Cumani 8st 10lb Andrea Atzeni
6 (7)
Pether's Moon (IRE) Richard Hannon 8st 9lb Richard Hughes
7 (8)
Time For Action (IRE) David Wachman, Ireland 8st 2lb W. M. Lordan
8 (3)
Shwaiman (IRE) James Fanshawe 8st 2lb Hayley Turner
2.40pm
Speedy Services Doncaster Cup (Group 2), 2m 2f, (8)
1
(1) Biographer David Lanigan 9st 3lb Ted Durcan
2
(6) Chiberta King (Sheepskin C/P) Andrew Balding 9st 3lb
Jimmy Fortune
3
(2) Colour Vision (FR) Saeed bin Suroor 9st 3lb Silvestre
De Sousa
4
(5) Desert Recluse (IRE) Pat Eddery 9st 3lb Robert
Winston
5
(3) High Jinx (IRE) (Tongue Strap) James Fanshawe 9st 3lb
James Doyle
6
(8) Mutual Regard (IRE) (Sheepskin C/P) Sir Mark Prescott Bt 9st
3lb Luke Morris
7
(7) Repeater (Hood) David O'Meara 9st 3lb Daniel
Tudhope
8
(4) Times Up Ed Dunlop 9st 3lb Ryan Moore
3.15pm
Barrett Steel May Hill Stakes (Group 2), 1m, (7)
1 (4)
Halljoy (IRE) Clive Brittain 8st 12lb Ryan Moore
2 (7)
Ihtimal (IRE) Saeed bin Suroor 8st 12lb Silvestre De Sousa
3 (2)
Lady Lara (IRE) Alan Jarvis 8st 12lb Jim Crowley
4 (3)
Lustrous Richard Hannon 8st 12lb Richard Hughes
5 (1)
Majeyda (USA) Charlie Appleby 8st 12lb Mickael Barzalona
6 (6)
Qawaasem (IRE) Charles Hills 8st 12lb Paul Hanagan
7 (5)
Vivere (IRE) David O'Meara 8st 12lb Daniel Tudhope
3.50pm
One Call Insurance Flying Scotsman Stakes (Listed), 7f, (7)
1 (7)
Miracle of Medinah Mark Usher 9st 4lb Liam Keniry
2 (4)
Barley Mow (IRE) Richard Hannon 9st 0lb Richard Hughes
3 (2) Be
Ready (IRE) Saeed bin Suroor 9st 0lb Silvestre De Sousa
4 (6)
Brazos (IRE) Clive Brittain 9st 0lb James Doyle
5 (1)
Cool Bahamian (IRE) Eve Johnson Houghton 9st 0lb Jimmy Fortune
6 (5)
Invincible Strike (IRE) James Tate 9st 0lb Ryan Moore
7 (3)
Voice of A Leader (IRE) Peter Chapple-Hyam 9st 0lb Jamie Spencer
4.25pm
Towndoor Limited Commercial Property Rental Handicap, 6f 110yds, (14)
1 (12)
Shropshire (IRE) (Hood) Charles Hills 9st 10lb Robert Winston
2 (7) Spiritual
Star (IRE) Anthony Carson 9st 6lb William Carson
3 (4)
Dubawi Sound (Tongue Strap) David Brown 9st 5lb Jamie Spencer
4 (1)
Secret Witness (Blinkers) Ronald Harris 9st 5lb Martin Harley
5 (6)
Norse Blues David Barron 9st 3lb Luke McNiff (3)
6 (2)
Bertiewhittle David Barron 9st 3lb Graham Gibbons
7 (11)
Gramercy (IRE) (Blinkers) David Simcock 9st 1lb Silvestre De Sousa
8 (14)
Elusive Flame David Elsworth 9st 0lb Ryan Moore
9 (8)
Mac's Power (IRE) (Tongue Strap) Willie Musson 8st 13lb James Doyle
10 (13)
Yeeoow (IRE) K. R. Burke 8st 13lb Daniel Tudhope
11 (5)
Dr Red Eye (Sheepskin C/P) Scott Dixon 8st 13lb Billy Cray (3)
12 (9)
Joe Packet Jonathan Portman 8st 11lb Jim Crowley
13 (10)
Sir Reginald Richard Fahey 8st 10lb Paul Hanagan
14 (3)
Corporal Maddox (Hood, Sheepskin C/P) Ronald Harris 8st 10lb Oisin Murphy (7)
5.00pm
Frank Whittle Partnership Classified Stakes, 1m 2f 60yds, (10)
1 (9)
Las Verglas Star (IRE) Richard Fahey 9st 4lb Paul Hanagan
2 (7)
Morocco David O'Meara 9st 4lb Daniel Tudhope
3 (10)
Muharrer (Hood) Michael Dods 9st 4lb Graham Lee
4 (4)
The Cayterers Ronald Harris 9st 4lb Oisin Murphy (7)
5 (6) Curly
Come Home Chris Wall 9st 1lb Ted Durcan
6 (3)
Lady Chaparral (Hood) Michael Dods 9st 1lb Tom Eaves
7 (1)
Stellar Express (IRE) Michael Appleby 9st 1lb Andrew Mullen
8 (2)
Soryah (IRE) Luca Cumani 9st 0lb Richard Hughes
9 (5)
Amralah (IRE) Mick Channon 8st 11lb Martin Harley
10 (8)
Zain Eagle Gerard Butler 8st 11lb James Doyle
WILL
THE LARK BE ON SONG ON TOWN MOOR?
Tomorrow's DFS Park Hill
Stakes, run over the same distance as the Ladbrokes St Leger, is sometimes
referred to as the 'fillies' St Leger', though somewhat erroneously as of
course fillies are eligible to run in the Classic. The Park Hill Stakes was
established in 1839, 33 years after the St Leger.
The race, originally
restricted to three-year-olds, was opened to older fillies and mares in 1991,
in which year it was dropped to Group 3 level. It regained Group 2 status in
2004. Its shortest-priced winner has been the peerless Pretty Polly at 1/25
in 1904 and its longest Collyria at 33/1 in 1959.
Classic heroines rarely
take part in the modern era. The latest of 11 to complete the Oaks-Park Hill
Stakes double was Pia, who dead-heated with Pink Gem at Doncaster in 1967. In
the past 20 years only three fillies placed in the Oaks have run in the Park
Hill Stakes: Wind In Her Hair in 1994 (2nd Epsom, 4th
Doncaster), All My Loving (3rd Epsom, 2nd Doncaster) and Meeznah,
who finished second in the Oaks (later disqualified) in 2010 and third in the
Park Hill Stakes as 2/1 favourite. She made amends by winning the Park Hill
Stakes as a four-year-old.
In the 22 years of
all-aged runners, three-year-olds hold the call with 12 winners. Tomorrow's
field of 10 is split equally between the Classic generation and their elders.
The highest-rated of the runners and likely favourite is the Michael
Bell-trained three-year-old The Lark, who finished four and a half lengths
third to Ladbrokes St Leger candidate Talent in the Investec Oaks at Epsom,
though since only fifth in a Group Two race at Saint-Cloud. The daughter of
Pivotal has yet to run beyond 12 furlongs but has plenty of stamina in her
pedigree; her dam, a winner over a mile and three-quarters, is a half-sister
to Oaks winner Sariska and her great grand-dam Mountain Lodge won an Irish St
Leger.
Last year's edition,
taken easily by Wild Coco, proved particularly strong in retrospect. The
winner later made 985,000gns when sold at auction at the Tattersalls December
Sales and holds entries in two of the weekend's Group One contests, the Prix
Vermeille and Irish St Leger; third-placed Estimate won the Ascot Gold Cup in
June, and fifth-placed Ambivalent also went on to Group One success that
month, in the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh, and finished a good second
in the Bosphorus Cup in Turkey on Sunday.
LEGER
LEGENDS AIM TO RAISE £100,000 FOR CHARITY
The opening day of
the Ladbrokes St Leger Festival sees the Clipper Logisitics Leger Legends
Classified Stakes, a race for some of the most popular and successful retired
jockeys from both codes of racing.
Since its launch in
2010, the race has raised £360,000 for the Northern Racing College in Doncaster
and the soon-to-be-built Jack Berry House in Malton. Work on the latter will
start in October while a detailed planning application was submitted some
months ago for a new residential and training block at the Northern Racing
College.
Around £120,000 was
raised last year alone and Tim Adams, Chairman of the Leger Legends
Committee, hopes the total can be around £100,000 this year.
The guest of honour at
this year's lunch is 77-year-old Lester Piggott, who was champion jockey 11
times. With 4,493 career victories to his name, including nine victories in
the Investec Derby, Piggott won the Ladbrokes St Leger a total of eight times
with his final victory in the race coming in 1984 aboard Commanche Run.
Other notable guests at
this afternoon's lunch are Danielle Brown, a competitive archer who won a
gold medal at last year's Paralympics in the women's individual compound bow,
Steve McNamara, coach of the England rugby league side which is about to take
part in the forthcoming Rugby League World Cup this year and Jilly Cooper,
the well-known best-selling author.
A major part of the
fund-raising initiative is the Leger Legends lunch in which nine main auction
prizes are sold to raise money for the Injured Jockeys Fund as well as 30
silent auction lots which those attending the lunch are invited to bid on
during the afternoon.
Some of the major
auction lots include a whip which used to belong to 13-time champion jockey
Fred Archer. This has already had a bid of £5,000 placed on it and has been
framed together with a photo from the National Horseracing Museum in
Newmarket showing Archer holding the whip.
There is also a life
size painted horse by Newmarket artist Jacquie Jones which depicts Black
Caviar, Frankel, Galileo, Mill Reef, Nijinsky, Sea The Stars and Shergar. The
seven horses have been chosen by the Leger Legends as the seven best horses
to have graced the turf since 1970.
The 16 jockeys taking
part in this year's race have trained tirelessly to be fit for the race and
have already collected thousands of pounds in sponsorship. Of last year's
jockeys, Julie Krone and Tony Clark have now permanently retired from the
saddle while Mick Kinane, George Duffield and Tom O'Ryan are currently
injured.
There are six debutants
taking part this year in the shape of Michael Hills, Willie Supple, Carl
Llewellyn, Tony Culhane, David O'Meara and John Lowe and they will all be
hoping to join Mick Kinane, Julie Krone and Charlie Swan in the Leger Legend
hall of fame.
There is one non-runner
in the race, Broctune Papa Gio, which means the first reserve, Waltz Darling,
comes into the race and will be ridden by Willie Newton.
Ladbrokes are betting on
the Clipper Logistics Leger Legends Classified Stakes and they bet as
follows:
6/1 Callmeakhab (Michael
Hills); 6/1 Winslow Arizona (Willie Ryan); 7/1 Piceno (Tony
Culhane); 10/1 Dana's Present (Willie Supple); 10/1 Pelmanism
(Gay Kelleway); 10/1 Sardanapalus (Kevin Darley); 10/1
Sword In Hand (Dale Gibson); 14/1 Berlusca (David O'Meara); 16/1
Jay Bee Blue (Luke Harvey); 16/1 My Guardian Angel (John Lowe); 16/1
Slim Chance (Ollie Pears); 16/1 Excellent Puck (Jimmy McCarthy); 25/
1 Mr Spiggott (Nick Connorton); 25/1 Self Employed (Carl
Llewellyn); 33/1 Orders From Rome (Gary Bardwell); 50/1 Waltz
Darling (Willie Newton); NR Broctune Papa Gio.
1/5 1-2-3
Anyone wishing to make a
donation to the Leger Legends can do so online at www.justgiving.com/northernracingcollege
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